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May 24, 2024 · Find the origin of a first name. Origin, meaning, popularity and geographical repartition: discover your first name and the first name of your ancestors! Thousands of first names are indexed on Geneanet.
May 9, 2024 · A few hours later, the lid is opened to reveal a delicious cake. Spotted dick is a citrus-flavored steamed pudding that is prepared with suet and dried currants. The color difference between the light cake and the dark dried fruit that speckles the surface of the cake makes it appear spotted — thus the name.
May 13, 2024 · The Indiana Fever exist in this space, owning a name that is anything but ordinary. Yet, it's likely few folks know its origins. So, just where does the name “Fever” come from?
May 14, 2024 · In Latin, the name Germania means “lands where people called Germani live”. Modern scholars do not agree on the etymology of the name Germani. Celtic, Germanic, Illyrian, and Latin etymologies have been suggested. The main source on the origin of the names Germania and Germani is the book Germania (98 AD) by Tacitus.
4 days ago · The short history of independent Slovakia is one of a desire to move from mere autonomy within the Czechoslovak federation to sovereignty—a history of resistance to being called “the nation after the hyphen .”. Although World War II thwarted the Slovaks’ first vote for independence in 1939, sovereignty was finally realized on January 1 ...
2 days ago · May 11, 2024, 6:20 PM ET (The Guardian) Chalmers signals inflation focus in budget – as it happened. Anthony Albanese (born March 2, 1963, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian politician who became the 31st prime minister of Australia in May 2022 at the head of the first Labor government to rule the country since 2013.
5 days ago · The Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Modern genetic analyses indicate that the strain of Y. pestis introduced during the Black Death is ancestral to all extant circulating Y. pestis strains known to cause disease in humans.
